i discover a collection of household ledgers that my mother, who is now showing symptoms of dementia, has faithfully recorded for the past 50 years. it contains the history of our family time and the transformative periods of modern korean history. i want to the vivid records found in these accounting books and my mother's fading memories. currently, my mother struggles with memory loss, making it difficult for her to regulate her emotions, and occasionally. she also perplexes the family with episodes of sadness and lethargy.